Parliamentary sovereignty

these aims, the Parliament passed a series of new taxes on the colonies: The Sugar Act, The Stamp act, and the Townshend Act. The colonists, in theory did not object to taxation related to overseas trade, whose regulation had always been a British Parliamentary prerogative. In practice many objected to high duties on imported goods and did their best to work around them. There was visceral opposition to direct taxes from London. Many Americans felt that direct taxes on the Colonies, voted by the…

After World War 2, 48 nations from the UN came together to form the Universal Declaration of Human rights. A few years later, the rights listed in the UDHR were used to form the basis of the European Convention of Human rights. This is an “international treaty to protect human rights in Europe”. This convention established the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. In 1998, the Human Rights Act 1998 was passed which meant that the government had to “explain how new laws are human rights…

progressed the common law continued to develop. The signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, governed the way the state interacts with its citizens, a fundamental principle in every legal system . While additionally forging the beginnings of parliamentary sovereignty, a vital component of New Zealand’s modern legal structure . The tradition of robust, centralised rule continued with subsequent monarchs and the ‘common law’ continued to shape into the system New Zealand officially inherited in 1858 .…

At that time, two unified kingdoms existed: the kingdom of England and the kingdom of Scotland. They developed side by side. Besides the desire in the north to expand its territorial limits, the realm from the South also had the ambition to govern Scotland. As Malcolm III was helped by the English to conquer the throne of Scotland, they saw the opportunity to realise their wishes of governance. Nonetheless, once he was King, Malcolm turned his back on them and became an opponent. He invaded…

Introduction The arctic environment is being altered by climate change at an alarming rate. Increased worldwide temperatures have caused melting sea ice, which will soon lead to the Arctic being free of ice during the summer months . Greater accessibility of resources like gas and oil, as well as strategic maritime transport advantages, will occur due to this change. The newfound availability of these resources could create competition, which has the potential to lead to conflict amongst the…

French-Canadians had come to realize that there existed a clear division between the advocacy of a parliamentary system of government established by the Constitutional Act and the concepts of responsible government, which valued accountability and self-governance. Jean Hamelin in Brève histoire du Québec further heightens this notion by stating “Do not be mistaken, the law of 1791 introduced the parliamentary system in Lower Canada, not a democracy.”(). manifesto on October 4 which proclaimed…

Democratic Dictatorship? The Power of the Prime Minister in Canada Recently in Canada, it is being debated if the power that the Prime Minister holds has become stronger. Section 9 and 10 of the Constitution Act of 1867 declares the Queen and Governor as the ones who possess executive power, when today in practice, that power is found within the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The era of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister has been referred to as the period when the checks and balances began to…

An integral question throughout Canada’s history has been who is and who is not permitted to come into the country. In The Making of the Mosaic, authors Ninette Kelley, a legal and policy analyst for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Michael Trebilcock, a university law professor, effectively compile legal and political answers in the pursuit of resolving this challenging question. Divided chronologically into eleven sections spanning the beginnings of the French Colony in…

fear of foreign powers exploiting political parties to express their country’s interests: A fear which unfortunately became a reality in 1936, when Prime Minister Nahas Pasha, elected under the Wafd party, broke his promise to win the nation’s sovereignty in signing the Anglo-Egyptian treaty, which permitted continued British military presence. [7] While the restriction of civil liberties may be justified as foresight in this respect, his motives become questionable when the elements of the…

Years later, in 1791, Olympe de Gouges composed the Declaration of Rights of Women demanding women be treated as equally as men . Olympe de Gouges based the declaration in the need for women to be treated with the same principles of equality and sovereignty that men demanded. The Declaration of Rights of Women greatly influenced the need for women’s rights in the eighteenth century by declaring women as equal citizens of French. Olympe de Gouges showed a perfect example of how the human beings…